[ka-Map-users] ka-map with PHP as a CGI vs. DSO?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

I thinking that be possible to convert ka-map requests to actual tile 
images instead of via the CGI, and have it be smart enough to handle a 
404 response for a tile by re issuing the request via the CGI.

This would unload the server significantly at the cost of a slightly 
longer delay in generating a new tile. It might be that the new tile 
will load faster anyway because there is more processor time available 
to generate the new tiles.

-Steve

Matthew Perry wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
>   It occured to me, as I watched my processor run near 100% due to a
> few ka-map tile requests, that running ka-map with PHP as a CGI might
> be a serious liability. In other words, having to start a new process
> for each tile is extremely expensive compared to running a persistent
> process or daemon.
> 
>   Has anyone used Ka-Map with PHP/Mapscript as a DSO? It seems as if
> this would speed things up a bit. Is this even possible? There has
> been some discussion on the Mapserver list and the consensus is still,
> unfortunately, that Apache 2 with PHP DSO is not stable with Mapscipt.
> Does anyone's experience prove otherwise??
> 
> What are other folks doing to improve ka-map perfomance given the
> limitations of CGI?
>